'Sins' in the Bible
So John the Baptizer came, and was in the Desert proclaiming a baptism of the penitent for forgiveness of sins.
There went out to him people of all classes from Judaea, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem of all ranks, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan, making open confession of their sins.
Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are pardoned."
"Why does this man use such words?" they said; "he is blaspheming. Who can pardon sins but One--that is, God?"
Which is easier?--to say to this paralytic, 'Your sins are pardoned,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your mat, and walk?'
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to pardon sins" --He turned to the paralytic, and said,
In solemn truth I tell you that all their sins may be pardoned to the sons of men, and all their blasphemies, however they may have blasphemed;